Simple operation allows non verbal boy to talk for the first time

A five-year-old boy, thought to be non-verbal, began speaking hours after a dentist discovered the simple solution his speech therapists missed.

The Texas youngster had not uttered a word until that point, but after the dentist corrected the boy's 'tongue tie' he was uttering sentences within hours.

Mason Motz was diagnosed at birth with Sotos syndrome, which causes overgrowth in childhood, a distinctive facial appearance and cognitive learning disabilities, so doctors thought his inability to communicate was related to the condition.

He was able to make sounds, but couldn't form words.

"He's been in speech therapy since he was a little over one-year-old," his mother Meredith Motz told Inside Edition. "Sleeping was always stressful. He would stop breathing.

"He had trouble eating and swallowing; every single meal we would have to remove something that was choking him. He didn't get the nutrition he needed. His teeth started having problems."

A trip to the dentist late last year changed Mason's life forever, his parents say.